TimLivingston

It has to be a big name at this point. Stewart's so cushy right now that I can't see it happening unless CBS backs up the money truck (which they might considering how well both the new NBC late shows are being received).

Got the Limited Edition Pack. Easy buy for me. Totally worth playing through again. Don't think I'll touch X-2, but totally worth it just for X. Also, BLITZBALL.

Absolutely brilliant.

I'm not the biggest fan of concussion angles. No need for them to be done at this point.

Well, there's also that little caveat about guys actually wanting to take it. Which I'm guessing weren't many.

I loved the main, thought it was actually on the higher end of the NXT spectrum of big matches. Neville isn't afraid to kill himself out there and Bo knows how to ramp it up. I'm not sure how he's going to transfer to the main roster, but I think it's obvious he's found his niche from an in-ring perspective.

So supposedly, TMZ posted and then retracted a story that the celebrity entrant this year was going to be Mr. T.

Harper on NXT was fun, had the great Ohno match, some decent tags, but didn't really come out of his shell until the end of the year. Goldust getting a few months to really be a part of some great tags helps him take the lead. To me, it almost comes down to the Battleground Tag vs. the EC 6-man. That tag was one of the best things I had seen in the WWE in quite some time, and then a few months later, the EC 6-man became almost the stamp on what the Wyatts were about. The one thing I don't like is that we don't have a lot of Goldust singles matches, whereas Harper got a chance to work solo a bunch more and looked great in doing so. In the end, I think the sheer quality of the work starting with the Battleground tag going forward was really just incredibly high.

God damn it, Cole got fucking screwed here. He's been very entertaining in PWG and I'm a Mount Rushmore mark, but this is the equivalent of booking him as a 64 or 63 seed. That being said, Cesaro should win the damn thing.

On the basis of what? Being the lesser of the two in a main event PPV match with Randy Orton?

I feel as if you're tricking me into using PayPal again. I never knew you were that type of a carny.

I love that they got Corey Graves to go a bit meta with the whole Punk situation ("Why aren't I a part of the big show?") and then jobbed him out to Zayn. That was a nice little touch. And HELL YES, CHARLOTTE. That was some A+ heeling right there. Give her a bit more time on the mike, have her pick up some of Ric's mannerisms and she'll be as good as gold.

The Thunder just let Gerald Green score 41 on them. And got 70 from Durant and Westbrook. And lost. I don't even.

The Nak match alone pushes Ibushi over the top. Ziggler didn't have one match better.

Art Barr is all about frog splashing and swimming and mullets. A vote against him is a vote against America.

It looks like the VOD issues are going away. After two days of not being able to go through anything, I'm fast forwarding through GAB '92 and loving life. For the rest of you guys who are still experiencing issues, just hang in there. It does get better.

One of my favorite things in wrestling over the last few years is the added length that was given to the 5/92 match due to re-releases and how it's like one of wrestling's Holy Grails has been found complete and intact. But goddamn that dropkick.

With the Network approaching, WWE has started to turn the corner with their builds, both for EC (Seriously, the Shield/Wyatt 6-man is an incredible clash and the build has been awesome) and ArRival. Neville's trying hard with Bo, but they haven't exactly let Bo loose with the stuff that made him such a great goofball heel. I wish I saw more of it. Meanwhile, I don't see Zayn going over Cesaro clean, which speaks more to what Cesaro has done than anything else. He just pinned Orton clean as a sheet and went to the wire with Cena. It's going to be hard to see Zayn go over unless there are some shenanigans. That being said, the match itself is going to be bonkers.

God, Mount Rushmore is absolutely the best. This is the best Kevin Steen has ever been, really.

Cesaro's last 12 months are insane. As good as Bryan has been, what Cesaro has done on a week-to-week basis is one the best North American runs in a long, long time.

The UK Office didn't have 100 episodes in it anyways. So that point is moot right away. I'm just about to finish this off. The show is now a bit full of itself. Yeah, it's about one man's rise to power using ruthless pragmatism, but man alive, there's very little about this show that's actually worthwhile. A whole bunch of empty dialogue, a lot of people in this show who are merely here for Frank to move around or move out of the way. Spacey's charisma and fourth wall breaking appeal is easy to get into, but the show to me just seems empty. I now want to see the UK version just to see the differences, if not only to see if FSW can get me dual citizenship considerations.

You watch the BFFs and you come away thinking, we have to get Charlotte more airtime? Summer is clearly the best in the role, she looks and acts exactly right for the head mean chick. Sascha is great as her cocky little lackey, but Charlotte kind of strikes me as out of place. She fits because she's Ric Flair's daughter and has the pedigree and the "lifestyle" and all that. And when she has talked, it's been fine. I just want to see more of her instead of less. But you are right. Summer is about as good as a Diva gets for the complete package.

It takes two to tango. Brian Pillman carried Johnny B. Badd at Fall Brawl but if he wasn't willing to dance, that match would have sucked. That Zayn/Cesaro interview was MONEY. That was old-school, money-drawing, get me to see those guys fight greatness. I was waiting for Cesaro to kick him in the knee, and when it happened, I popped so hard for that. I really want to see a Wyatt Family face run at some point. I actually think that once they work Cena, they might actually get turned face. One thing that I hope WWE does at some point is some type of generational war. NXT at this point really has enough guys who are at a level where they could do an all out assault on the "established" guys and instead of the aborted NXT thing from a few years ago where SuperCena reigned supreme, a year-long feud where the up-and-comers took on the old guard would be incredible. Sadly, Vince would never let it happen. BFF's need more promo time to get them over as bitches. I'm digging Charlotte as the mouthpiece/chosen one.

Been popping around the threads and can't get in, seeing database errors. First one I saw it was in the cricket thread.